Nashville sextet Diarrhea Planet opened the late show at Mercury Lounge on August 30th. The four-guitar attack was joined onstage by formidable shredder Marnie Stern for a few songs, and later joined headliners So So Glos for their encore of Beastie Boys’ “(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right.”

British chanteuse Bat For Lashes, in town as the opener for Depeche Mode’s arena tour, played her own sold-out headlining show at Webster Hall on a sweltering late August night on Friday, the 30th. After an opening set by San Diego’s Barbarian, Khan emerged, clad in a flowing, psychedelically cosmic pantsuit. Her set consisted of songs from all three of her albums, including last year’s The Haunted Man.